Amazon: Kindle Books Outselling Hardcovers

July 19, 2010

TechCrunch and several other outlets are reporting today that for every 100 hardcover books Amazon sold during the past 3 months, it sold 143 Kindle books. It would be interesting to know how many of these were textbooks; it’s safe to assume, probably, that at this point the answer is “very few.” Is it a harbinger of things to come, or a momentary blip on the radar caused by the recent Kindle price drop and the release of native Kindle apps for other devices? Will there be more students wandering campus this Fall with their textbooks in their Kindles, instead of their backpacks? With back-to-school creeping up on us, it will be interesting to see if the ratio of Kindles-to-hardcovers jumps…